Cleveland Mining Co Ltd : Rod Cambell Appointed Executive Director

4th September 2013

Cleveland Mining Company Ltd. (ASX: CDG) is pleased to announce that Mr Rod Campbell will join the Board of Cleveland Mining as Executive Director - Commercial, effective immediately. Mr Campbell will manage the finance, investor relations and treasury functions at Cleveland.
Mr Campbell has worked with the Company since March this year, originally engaged as an adviser to assist with the Company's acquisitions program. He has been a valuable team member, supporting management to raise capital and assisting with the restructure of the Australian operations.
Mr Campbell brings extensive corporate and financing experience to the Board. He held senior management positions with Fortescue Metals Group Ltd from 2004 until 2012, during which he was involved in a number of high-profile debt raising transactions to facilitate the development of Fortescue's mine, port and rail infrastructure. He was Fortescue's Company Secretary over those years with extensive involvement across all areas of corporate governance. From 2010 to 2012 he was also Fortescue's Head of Investor Relations where he built a broad network across both the domestic and international resource investment communities.
Prior to working with Fortescue, Mr Campbell was State Manager Western Australia of Rabobank Australia Ltd and before that was a Senior Manager with State Bank NSW Ltd. Mr Campbell holds a Bachelor of Agricultural Economics from the University of New England and a Diploma from the Securities Institute of Australia.
The Board of Directors comprises Mr Russell Scrimshaw (Non-Executive Chairman), Mr Jim Williams (Non-Executive Director), Mr David Mendelawitz (Managing Director) and Mr Rod Campbell (Executive Director - Commercial).
Cleveland Mining's Chairman Mr Russell Scrimshaw said, "On behalf of the Company, I would like to welcome Mr Campbell to the Board. With this year shaping up as one of Cleveland's most exciting, we look forward to having Mr Campbell on the team."

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ASX Code: CDG

Total shares: 240.5 million Listed options: 11.4 million Unlisted options: 30.6 million

Non-Exec Chairman - Russell Scrimshaw Managing Director - David Mendelawitz Director - Rod Campbell

Non-Exec Director - Jim Williams

Investor & Media Enquiries T: +61 417 18 1990 investors@clevelandmining.com.au

Suite 3, Level 1, Rokeby Ctr,

254 Rokeby Road

Subiaco WA 6008

T: +61 (08) 6389 6000

F: +61 (08) 6389 6099 info@clevelandmining.com.au

Further Information

Mr David Mendelawitz

Managing Director

+61 8 6389 6000 investors@clevelandmining.com.au

Cleveland Mining Company Ltd is an Australian-managed, ASX-listed minerals company squarely focused on developing projects into mines.

The Company's management team have a track-record for building billion-dollar projects from the ground up, providing Cleveland with the expertise to secure and build robust projects.

Cleveland has gold and iron ore assets in Brazil in areas with excellent mining credentials:

- Mining and production are underway at Cleveland's Premier Gold Mine JV in Goiás State in central Brazil.

The Company is working to add throughput from the O Capitão project, which is less than 10km from the

Premier Mine.

- Cleveland has formed a strategic alliance with ASX-listed company BC Iron Ltd. (ASX: BCI) to co-acquire and co-develop new iron projects in Brazil as joint venture partners. The companies recently signed MOUs for three Brazilian iron projects.

Cleveland has a different approach to project selection with project economics driving target selection. Projects are chosen according to their likelihood of generating returns at the bottom of the economic cycle.

Appendix 3X Initial Director's Interest Notice

Appendix 3X

Initial Director's Interest Notice

Rule 3.19A.1

Information or documents not available now must be given to ASX as soon as available. Information and documents given to ASX become ASX's property and may be made public.

Introduced 30/9/2001.

Name of entity Cleveland Mining Company Limited

ABN 85 122 711 880

We (the entity) give ASX the following information under listing rule 3.19A.1 and as agent for the director for the purposes of section 205G of the Corporations Act.

Part 1 - Director's relevant interests in securities of which the director is the registered holder

In the case of a trust, this includes interests in the trust made available by the responsible entity of the trust

Note: In the case of a company, interests which come within paragraph (i) of the definition of "notifiable interest of a director" should be disclosed in this part.

Number & class of securities

Nil

+ See chapter 19 for defined terms.

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Appendix 3X

Initial Director's Interest Notice

Part 2 - Director's relevant interests in securities of which the director is not the registered holder

In the case of a trust, this includes interests in the trust made available by the responsible entity of the trust

Name of holder & nature of interest Note: Provide details of the circumstances giving rise to the relevant interest.

Mr Roderick Campbell & Mrs Kay Campbell as trustee for The Campbell Family Super Fund

Number & class of Securities

416,668 ordinary fully paid shares

Part 3 - Director's interests in contracts

Note: In the case of a company, interests which come within paragraph (ii) of the definition of "notifiable interest of a director" should be disclosed in this part.

+ See chapter 19 for defined terms.

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